Title :
Discrete-event simulation of fluid stochastic Petri nets
Author :
Ciardo, Gianfranco ; Nicol, David M. ; Trivedi, Kishor S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to describe a method for the simulation of the recently introduced fluid stochastic Petri nets. Since such nets result in rather complex system of partial differential equations, numerical solution becomes a formidable task. Because of a mixed (discrete and continuous) state space, simulative solution also poses some interesting challenges, which are addressed in the paper
Keywords :
Petri nets; discrete event simulation; discrete event systems; partial differential equations; discrete-event simulation; fluid stochastic Petri nets; mixed state space; numerical solution; partial differential equations; simulative solution; Continuous time systems; Discrete event simulation; Fluid flow; Partial differential equations; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Power system modeling; State-space methods; Stochastic processes; Stochastic systems;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
